As personal preference, I want to remove the menu entries for Appearance, Desktop, File Manager Preferences, etc from Settings Menu as these are already within Settings Manager.

Adding "NoDisplay=true" to the .desktop file removes both the menu entry and the Settings Manager entry.Removing the "Settings" Category from the .desktop file also removes the entry from both menu and "Settings Manager".

I googled and searched XFCE.org for a solution but found nothing relevant.Please help.

that's exactly how i did it (and what i meant by Removing the "Settings" Category from the .desktop file)but that would remove entries BOTH from Settings menu and Settings Manager (the control panel-like thing).i want to remove the entry from Settings menu only

If those two didn't work try removing the other ones one at a time but log out-in after doing the changes.I don't touch the regular menu, I made up my own custom menus 18 months ago and just copy them into a new install.

ukbrian wrote:If those two didn't work try removing the other ones one at a time but log out-in after doing the changes.I don't touch the regular menu, I made up my own custom menus 18 months ago and just copy them into a new install.

Custom menus is a good idea.However, I have not had the chance to make one myself. Perhaps in the future i will.

I have since changed path and replaced Mint 13 XFCE's "start" menu (applications menu) with mintMenu.I find there's a short delay with the "start" menu coming up with mintMenu compared to the default for Mint 13 XFCE.

Just found this out playing around... (In LMDX not sure if in/work with Mint13-Xfce )

The old 'xfce control center' made for (Mint9 Xfce I believe ) is still in repo's (LMDE at least). Can use as a launcher making sure anything else want in are 'drag Drop to other tab. Then using alacarte you can delete both settings and/or most of (or all) system (categories/launchers) from showing

P.S. I also use 'app finder' as main menu replacement. Also also have Thunar (file manager launcher) and a favorites (launcher with multiple entries) in panel